Shawn Woods is a gaming veteran of 18 years. His background spans everything from interactive CD-ROMS and TV commercials in the late 90’s to creating Orcs and UI for Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, and Homeworld 2, art direction at Microsoft, and finally co-founding Alpha Dog Games focusing on mobile games. Alpha Dog Games…
I gave a talk to computer science students at Temple University last year and recorded the audio. I never got around to creating a video (background image) for it until now. I’ve been asked to come back several times since the first instance that I gave this talk, so I thought it would be…
I was part of the launch team behind Microsoft’s Reactor in Philadelphia back in November. Recently, our public sector (government) team had an opportunity to write about our three spaces across the United States, including San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia. You can find that article here. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and…
I get asked this question all of the time, so I thought it was appropriate to explain exactly what this job is about and why I enjoy it so much. UPDATE: My peer in Philadelphia, Amanda Lange (@Second_Truth) put together a video illustrating what her experience has been like. Take a look and you…
At Microsoft we have an internal distribution group for retro computing and gaming. I stumbled across this gem from Hans Reutter the other day, and with his permission, had to share it! ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
As an evangelist, half of my time is spent with technical communities and the other half is building technical content with companies across the country. One day I may be building asp.net projects on a Mac, and the next I am flying to Atlanta to present Machine Learning with Nvidia. They say “variety is the…
I just returned from the annual Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco after working at the Xbox booth, and we had several questions about our newly announced updates to the Xbox Live Creators Program. The biggest change is this: “Xbox Live will soon be open to all developers via the Xbox Live Creators Program –…
I aint afraid of no ghosts – Ray Parker Jr. Amanda Lange (@Second_Truth) and I went ghost hunting around Philadelphia earlier this summer. We started at Drexel University, then made our way out to the suburbs of Exton, to record a series of videos around a device we created this summer. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to…
Link to the event. At 8:30am in the morning, we held a Sport Talk panel at the Quorum, where we discussed the intersection between technology and sports, but physical and eSports. Our partners at Seventy Six Capital coordinated this with the University City Science Center, and we had a packed room of 120+ people, and…
Philly Dev Night community put together their annual toy drive for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP), and this time it was at the Microsoft Reactor. We had well over 60 people in attendance, and the Dev Night team asked that anyone who attended bring a gift for a child. For those who didn’t, we…